Jody was a sniper for the Canadian forces, and while on duty in Afghanistan in 2007, he stepped on a land mine and lost both his legs below the knee. After an extraordinary recovery, Jody was running 5 km charity runs in a little over a year on his new prosthetic feet. "It's obviously going to be a challenge," Jody says of his prosthetics, "but we're going to have to overcome that with determination."

Cory was by Jody's side during his recovery and then relocated to Alberta to take a job five years ago. The distance has been hard on the brothers and they're looking forward to re-establishing their strong bond. "We'll rely on each other to get the job done," says Cory. "Our interaction will probably be laced with a lot of bleeps for the viewers at home, and comic relief, also quite a bit of fireworks," says Jody.

Within a few months of returning home, Jody was reunited with one of the medics who evacuated him from Afghanistan. The two are now common law partners of five years and have two beautiful girls together. With the birth of his first daughter, Jody vowed to always strive to be a better person, someone his daughter would look up to and be proud to call Dad.

Motto: "They are the enemy and we shall destroy them."

How will they plan to win The Race: Focus, hard work, calculated risk.

Number one roadblock as team: "Being patient and bringing the intensity down a little bit from red line."

⋐ The team that used the second slot of the "Double U-Turn"⋑ Recipient of a second U-Turn due to the "Double U-Turn" twist

Notes:1: Leg 1 featured two Roadblocks and no Detour. The team member who sat out the first Roadblock was required to perform the second one.
2:Jody & Cory were tied with Holly & Brett for 2nd place, as they arrived on the mat at exactly the same time.
3: Leg 10 also featured two Roadblocks and no Detour. The team member who sat out the first Roadblock was required to perform the second one.

Post-Race

Following the Race, Jody also became a public speaker and author, releasing 2 books: Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper, a memoir chronicling his experience in the military and his recovery following the loss of his legs in Afghanistan, and a second book, Everyday Heroes: Inspirational Stories From Men and Women In the Canadian Armed Forces, a collection of stories from others who served.[2]

He was a panelist on the 2017 season of the CBC series, Canada Reads, a debate competition to determine the year's best work by a Canadian author. He defended the futuristic novel Nostalgia by M.G. Vassangi.[3][4]